Harold Alan Pincus, M.D., is the Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Co-Director of the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Columbia University.

He is also a Senior Scientist at the RAND Corporation, and the National Director of the Health and Aging Policy Fellowship (supported by the John A. Hartford Foundation, West Health Policy Institute and Atlantic Philanthropies). Among multiple other national/international committee positions, he is the Co-Chair of the National Quality Forum Standing Committee on Behavioural Health and the World Health Organization’s ICD-11 Committee on Quality and Patient Safety.

Harold had previously held Vice-Chair positions at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and of the Task Force on DSM-IV. Dr Pincus has also contributed to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), by having held positions of the Deputy Medical Director and the Founding Director of the Office of Research at the APA. Earlier, he was also the Director of the RAND-University of Pittsburgh Health Institute, Special Assistant to the director of the National Institute of Mental Health, served as the Clinical Scholar at the White House and congressional staff, and directed national programs for the Robert Wood Johnson and MacArthur Foundations.